America Quotes - Page 33

• Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.

  Gary Hamel

  Phones, Apples, Expectations

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• America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.

  Glenn Beck

  Responsibility, Simple, Fire

  Glenn Beck (2012). “Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.

  Warren G. Harding

  Thinking, Opposites, President

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• America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Want, My Children

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• Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed -
  Let it be that great strong land of love
  Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
  That any man be crushed by one above.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Strong, Kings

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.131, University of Missouri Press

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• Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it . . . I do know know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can search the human heart? - But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Party, Heart

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• That's when America soars, when we look out for one another and we take care of each other, when we root for one another's success, when we strive to do better and to be better than the generation that came before us and try to build something better for generations to come, that's why we do what we do. That's the whole point of public service.

  Barack Obama

  Success, Roots, Trying

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• We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.

  Barack Obama

  Strength, Writing, World

  "Obama: Liberal critics of trade stuck in the past" by Theodore Schleifer, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2015.

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• The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Important, Politics

  Remarks by the President on the FY2016 Budget, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 2, 2015.

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• There is no doubt that thanks to the steps that we took early on to rescue our economy and to rebuild it on a new foundation, we are entering into the new year with new confidence that America is coming back.

  Barack Obama

  Confidence, New Year, Years

  "Obama promotes auto industry bailout as a policy that worked". www.foxnews.com. January 7, 2015.

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• But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Speaks Out, United States

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• America's strong bonds with Israel are well known - this bond is unbreakable.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Israel, Unbreakable

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

  Barack Obama

  War, Islam, Violent

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally.

  George S. Patton

  War, Fighting, Men

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• The message is resonating, not just in Wisconsin, but all over America, the people are sick and tired of establishment politics, establishment economics. They want real change.

  Bernie Sanders

  Change, Real, Tired

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• The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.

  Bernie Sanders

  Change, Class, Generations

  "|Bernie and Larry Sanders: brothers form quixotic cross-Atlantic political 'dynasty'" by Jessica Glenza, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2015.

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• All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their white allies came together and they struggled and they stood up for justice and they stood up to lynching and they stood up to segregation and the stood up to a nation where African-Americans couldn't even vote in America.

  Bernie Sanders

  White, Lynching, Justice

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• America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Opportunity, Outcomes, Guarantees

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• I believe in an America that is on the march - an America respected by all nations, friends and foes alike - an America that is moving, doing, working, trying - a strong America in a world
  of peace. That peace must be based on world law and world order, on the mutual respect of all nations for the rights and powers of others and on a world economy in which no nation lacks the
  ability to provide a decent standard of living for all of its people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Believe, Moving

  Speech at Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 31, 1960.

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• ... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

  Mary McCarthy

  Happy, Children, Virtue

  Mary McCarthy (1993). “Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938”, Harcourt

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• Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Encouragement, Self, Two

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• Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls.... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Education, Spiritual, Children

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• Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Powerful, Motherhood, Two

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• Intellectual respectability required mental health, and it was becoming evident to me by then that "mental health" consisted of trusting everyone about everything as much as possible - and, for good measure, poking fun at anyone who didn't. Especially to be trusted were the mass media, whose owners and personnel were not to be regarded as minions of the Establishment because, as they themselves used to attest with confidence, there was no Establishment in the United States of America. Only foreigners and paranoids believed (otherwise).

  Kerry Thornley

  Fun, Media, Intellectual

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• Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

  Winston Churchill

  War, Winning, Ww2

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